Vantaggi
Lots of big ideas to inspire you here and major consumer-facing problems to work on. You will be surrounded by some of the smartest, funniest and best people in the Bay Area. In fact, you should follow them all on twitter now, because it will no doubt improve your feed and your life. The office is absolutely lovely, welcoming, and couldn't be easier to get to from a commuting perspective. Wonderful perks and benefits, especially for families. People here care about doing great work and are always eager to collaborate. Some of the earliest employees are still around and are incredible people. Access to top management is above average, especially among key leaders who came over from LinkedIn. Ditto for transparency.
Svantaggi
I guess for all the legitimately amazing stuff, there must be cons, because if not, I'd hope we'd all have the presence of mind to use our experiences here to create our own magical Unicorn Company of Awesomeness post haste. Here's my take: --Honestly, I'm still perplexed by the fundamental, underlying culture at NerdWallet. I'm not sure why you'd set up a company based on a Hunger Games, hedge fund, winner-take-all ethos, but say you did and that worked for you. You can't, then, expect a 'Teach for America' culture to emerge just because you summoned it. That takes a lot of hard, hard work and many companies have failed to turn around very similar ships. And you know it lingers because it keeps flaring up in the weirdest ways: --an email by your manager micro-managing the CEO's 'organic', for-the-people listening tour --tacky 'anonymous' questions at many Founders Q & As -- everything from asking senior management to publicly detail demotions (by name) to straight up public, but faceless beyotching about a lot of new desks appearing in the office, ostensibly cluttering the workspace. You are left to wonder...(a) were people just not raised properly? or (b) is there more culture work to be done here? --For certain next year's reviews could benefit from more oversight in a base-line HR/best practices perspective. Some were legendary this year -- and not in a great or positive way. And because of this lingering culture issue, it's easy to take staff departures and assign some larger meaning to each but that would be 100% wrong here. At least in the one case I know about, it was as simple as simple gets -- a better, more attractive offer. Happens. In all, these are growing pains that I'm confident will be fixed. Give NerdWallet a serious look.